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Why Enterprise Products Partners Isn't the Same Company It Was 5 Years Ago

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Investors are no longer quite as positive about funding capital investments in the midstream sector despite the still vital nature of the services it provides to the global economy. The end goal was for Enterprise to replace its use of issuing equity with internal cash flow to fund more of its own capital investment projects.

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Why It Makes No Sense to Invest in the Airline Industry (and Why Boeing and General Electric Investors Will Do It Anyway)

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Airlines aren't productive (at least for shareholders) The ultimate test of whether a company is allocating capital productively for shareholders is the comparison between its return on invested capita l (ROIC) and its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Net Profit 2019 2020 2021 2022 (Est.)

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Where Will Nvidia Stock Be in 5 Years?

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With shares up by 2,800% since 2019, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) demonstrates the life-changing potential of long-term investing. But how much longer can the speculative AI industry boom without the real-world results to justify all this capital investment? That said, past performance is no guarantee of future returns.

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ExxonMobil Has the Fuel to Potentially Produce Phenomenal Total Returns Through 2027

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The oil giant began working on that strategy in 2019. The oil giant reiterated that its strategy would more than double its earnings potential from its 2019 baseline by 2027, assuming oil averages $60 per barrel. The oil and gas company has a two-pronged strategy to drive that earnings growth: cost savings and capital investments.

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3 Dividend Stocks That Have Outperformed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Over the Last 5 Years

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It all has to do with the investment cycle, which is dependent on crop prices, interest rates, and other factors. Basically, if business is good for Deere's customers, there's a better chance they'll make a big capital investment. per pound in 2019, it rose to about $4.24 Whereas the price of copper was around $2.72

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If You'd Invested $10,000 in The Southern Company 10 Years Ago, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

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What's notable is that the stock lagged that of the average utility pretty badly from around 2017 to roughly 2019. So investors that stuck it out while Southern was muddling through this troubled capital investment project have been well rewarded from a total return perspective.

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Nearly Half of Warren Buffett's Dividend Income Comes From Just 3 Stocks

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This $10 billion in preferred stock stems from capital Berkshire supplied to Occidental in 2019 to facilitate its acquisition of Anadarko. Even though the worst of the pandemic appears to be over, energy companies worldwide reduced their capital investments for the past three-plus years.

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